Tagged: fundrazr

February 5, 2014 @ 11:36 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdfunding and health-related initiatives are invariably linked. Crowdfunding can drive funding for outreach programs, research and even specific surgeries, which was the goal of a FundRazr campaign launched by The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation. The campaign launched seeking $15,000 in order to pay for six… Read More

December 18, 2013 @ 4:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Healthline to help patients’ friends and families crowd fund medical expenses. Crowdfunding-as-a-Service provider FundRazr and Healthline have partnered to offer a new way to raise money online for patients with medical expenses in the U.S. or Internationally. Healthline is a San Francisco based provider of health… Read More

December 13, 2013 @ 11:24 am By Charles Luzar  |  

When it comes to crowdfunding, are women more generous than men? This is one of the questions the following infographic from FundRazr seeks to answer. FundRazr is a Canadian crowdfunding platform in operation since 2010. The platform shared the following stats with Crowdfund Insider and it… Read More

November 26, 2013 @ 11:30 am By Daryl Hatton  |  

Crowdfunding is one of the hottest business topics of 2013. In 2012 all forms of crowdfunding raised $2.7b – an 80% increase from the $1.5b raised in 2011. Massolutions, a consultancy, estimates the global market will increase another 81% in 2013 to $5.1b. A big… Read More

October 29, 2013 @ 11:54 am By Charles Luzar  |  

FundRazr has provided the following infographic on “US medical crowdfunding at a glance.” The statistics within provide a great overview of the crowdfunding landscape for medical causes in the last could of years, and provides some sense of what to expect from this sector in… Read More

October 2, 2013 @ 4:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

With the rapid growth of CrowdFunding in the UK, and the industry predicted to surpass $5.1B raised in 2013, crowdfunding is definitively a gamechanger for fundraising.  As part of their expansion into the United Kingdom and Europe, Fundrazr has put together an Infographic on where… Read More

October 2, 2013 @ 3:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Canadian platform FundRazr wants to be known as the easy to use crowdfunding platform for everyone.  They have been doing a pretty fantastic job of achieving this goal.  Recently they were tapped for a new television show about crowdfunding.  Earlier this year, Fundrazr announced having… Read More

September 13, 2013 @ 2:19 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

FundRazr will be at the center of a new television program covering crowdfunding campaigns from Canada and the US. The new half-hour TV show is produced by Merton Park Film Studios of Toronto. Each episode will focus on six or seven inspiring projects that will provide… Read More

August 29, 2013 @ 9:19 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In light of Kickstarter’s entry into the Canadian crowdfunding market, FundRazr posted this satirical launch page reminding Canadian crowdfunders that they’ve been there from the beginning. The page offers some “helpful tips aboot the Great White North,” including… Creatives are not the only Canadians who… Read More

August 18, 2013 @ 10:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding as a Service Technology or CFaaST, Allows Crowdfunding Integrated Directly on Company Website Fundrazr claims 2013 as an excellent year and rightly so.  In 2013 they won the “Most Promising Startup” from the Technology Impact Awards.  They were also a winner in the Global… Read More

June 27, 2013 @ 2:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

Dubbed Crowdfunding’s Final Frontier – Crowdfund Anything Anywhere Site FundRazr Powers PayPal Galactic Site. The crowdfunding innovators at FundRazr are are powering PayPal Galactic’s partnership with SETI Institute to crowdfund life on earth, and search for ET (extraterrestrial) life beyond it. SETI’s Curiosity Movement crowdfunding… Read More

June 7, 2013 @ 4:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Wins Most Promising Startup in 2013 from Technology Impact Awards Vancouver based FundRazr has announced they have been selected winner for the Most Promising Start-up at the 2013 Technology Impact Awards (TIAs) hosted by the British Columbia Technology Industry Association (BCTIA) on June 6th. From a posting… Read More

May 21, 2013 @ 1:36 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Today FundRazr has announced that they’ve helped 37,000 project creators raise over $25 million since launching their crowdfunding platform in July of 2010. From the release… Announced today, FundRazr has accumulated a list of our 25 Most Notable Campaigns in celebration of our $25 Million… Read More

February 6, 2013 @ 5:38 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdfunding has become increasingly popular in the United States, especially since the passage of the JOBS Act.  With the anticipation of equity crowdfunding and growth of perk-based crowdfunding, in general, the number of registered websites containing the word “crowdfund” has increased by a tenfold, reaching… Read More

February 4, 2013 @ 5:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding has become one of the new hot trends on the internet thanks to sites like IndieGoGo and Kickstarter. These particular sites are associated with creative projects, such as raising money to make an album or to take time off of work to write a… Read More

January 15, 2013 @ 7:00 am By Kristin Voinovich  |  

It used to be that most organizations fundraising for charity had to do so the old fashioned way, whether that be by direct (snail) mail, specific events, or in person solicitations.  These were all methods which could be very successful, but these methods were also exceptionally inefficient… Read More

January 13, 2013 @ 12:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

HelpAsh.org spokespersons Kindle Fahlenkamp-Morell and Heather Dearman, announced they have partnered with leading crowdfunding site FundRazr to raise money online for Ashley Moser, a victim of the Aurora, CO tragedy of July 20, 2012. To date, the family has raised 20 percent of their overall… Read More

January 13, 2013 @ 10:10 am By USAToday  |  

More people are turning to crowdfunding sites to ask friends, and friends of friends, for help with medical bills, accident costs and much more. But, surprise: Strangers give, too. When Matthew Foutz helped co-found the Human Tribe Project, a crowdfunding website that helps people raise… Read More